Final Jeopardy: Symbolic Objects (9-30-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/30/2019) in the category “Symbolic Objects” was:

To complete one of its regular trips, in 1948 it took a boat across the English Channel; in 1952 it took a plane en route to Finland

New champ Laurel Lathrop, a graduate student from Tallahassee, FL, won $31,201 last Friday. In her second game, she takes on these two players: Jennifer Kinyak, a freelancer from Albuquerque, NM; and Jason Marsden, a non-profit executive from Denver, CO.

Round 1 Categories: From the Scots, Aye – College-pourri – I Beat Meryl! – “S”even-Letter Science – Time for a Snack – Trail Mix

Jennifer found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “‘S’even-Letter Science” under the $800 clue on the 6th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,600, $600 more than Laurel in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

This species name is also the title of a bestselling history of humanity by Yuval Noah Hariri. show

WHAT IS SAPIENS?

Jennifer finished in the lead with $7,600. Laurel was second with $4,800 and Jason was last, at negative $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: Recent Broadway Plays – American History – It’s Only a Paper Moon – European Jobs – A “Bum” Steer – Fun-to-say Quotations

Jason found the first Daily Double in “European Jobs” under the $1,200 clue, with 11 clues left after it. He was in third place with $6,600 at this point, half of Jennifer’s lead. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

Ravenmaster yeoman warder Christopher Skaife said he felt “like a proud father” after 4 raven chicks hatched here in 2019. show

WHAT IS THE TOWER OF LONDON?

Laurel found the last Daily Double in “Paper Moon” under the $2,000 clue, with just the Broadway Plays category left after it. In third place with $11,600, she had $2,800 less than Jason’s lead. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.

A novel by him says: “Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles” show

WHO IS BRAM STOKER?

Laurel finished in the lead with $17,600. Jason was next with $16,400 and Jennifer was in third place with $15,200.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE OLYMPIC TORCH (or Olympic Flame)?

The Olympic torch relay transports the flame from Olympia, Greece to the various designated sites of Olympic games. The relay was introduced by Carl Diem at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, organized by the Nazis under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels. According to InfoPlease, “Some 3,330 runners brought the flame through Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Similar relays have taken place for every Summer Game since.” They also note that beginning in 1964 “the Winter Games have also had a torch relay starting in Olympia.”

From 1998: WOMEN’S FIRSTS ($400) In 1968 in Mexico City, Enriqueta Basilo carried a torch to light this fire

Jennifer went with the World Cup. She lost one dollar and finished with $15,199.

Jason got it right. He bet $14,001, bringing him up to $30,401.

Laurel got it, too. She bet $15,201 and won the game with $32,801. Her 2-day total is $64,002.

A triple stumper from each round:

COLLEGE-POURRI ($800) In 2017 Yale renamed one of its residential colleges to honor this Navy computing maven

TRAIL MIX ($1000) In her memoir “Wild”, Cheryl Strayed tells of hiking more than 1,000 miles of this trail, from Calif. to Washington State

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “American Artist”

This artist from Iowa once said, “All the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow” show

WHO IS GRANT WOOD?

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